Al Capone: The Untouchable Legend

About this episode

The exploits of 1920s gangster Al Capone have inspired authors, journalists and filmmakers for almost a century. Born in Brooklyn, he became a millionaire running protection rackets, gambling, brothels, and speakeasies in Chicago. His infamy was so widespread that even the police who hunted him became famous and known as The Untouchables. Eventually, Capone was convicted - on income tax evasion - and did 11 years in Alcatraz and died in 1947. But who was Capone? How did he become the most legendary gangster of the Roaring Twenties?